James wrote:

> Oh, one thing I forgot to ask.  How do you make the file to show how many
> frames POV should render and the other stuff I need to put in it.  I made
> one thing I want to animate but I need the file to show how many frames to
> render.  Tell me if you want it to tell me how to make it.
>
> Thanks,
> James

If you are using POV3.x, you don't need an input file for frame and clock
information.  Povray 3.x has an internal animation loop, and all you have to do
is tell it how many frames you want your animation to be.  The animation clock
value is automatically computed as a decimal value depending on the number of
frames specified.  example:

using the earlier example rendering for a 100 frame animation:

...
translate <50+(100*clock),0,0>
...


CLOCK is a value of 1.0 divided by the current frame#, so the actual clock value
depends on what frame# is currently rendering.  In other words, at frame#0, the
value of clock is also 0 (1.0 / 0.0).  At the 10th frame, the value of clock is
0.1  (1.0 / 10.0).  At the 57th frame, the value of clock is .57 (1.0 / 57).

This way, the value of the internal clock is be used to modify an object over
the course of an animation.

The command line goes something like this
povray +ianimate.pov +oanimate.tga +blah blah....+kff100

The +kff100 tells povray to use the internal clock and render a series of 100
frames.

I am posting this in the povray.animations newsgroup, so if you want more info
or help,  ask me there.

Robert
cre### [at] worldnetattnet
home.att.net/~crewsr

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